Synapse Tapestry installed at Albert Sherman Center

Today I received images of the Synapse Tapestry installed at the Albert Sherman Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. I will be making additional mixed media tapestries for this stairway passage.

Synapse Tapestry

completed sculpture

Over the past few days I have been completing this tapestry sculpture for a neurological research center in Boston. I shipped it off today in a bicycle box. To fit the 5ft x 4ft piece into the bicycle box, I designed the sculpture to separate into sections that snap and hook together. I have two more tapestries to make in this series.

part of assembly instructions

Detail of 3D printed element on sculpture.

Neuron Tapestry Project

After a long hiatus, I am beginning to work again on a mixed media textile project. The client is a neurological research center. There will ultimately be three panels, (each 4' x 5' x 2.5"), in this installation.

Here is my last posting on this project and the initial concept sketches created when the project was specified to be of different dimensions. Currently I am hand stitching fabrics to the wire framework.

Here are two elements completed against the background wire frame beginning to take shape.

Japanese Sashiko stitching representing neuron synapse and electrical impulse pathways.

Needle point waste canvas added to the frame work as an underlay.

Sunbrella fabric overlay being added to one of the sections.

Neuron Tapestry Work in Progress

This weekend I am adding decorative hand stitching to a tapestry commissioned by a neurological research center. The cardboard is just for temporary support. More elements and layering of fabrics will be added but this is what is developed so far for this Synapse Tapestry for the Albert Sherman Center.

A Japanese Boys' Day Carp is taken apart and parts are incorporated into tapestry.